With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

They could have simply been told, ‘Enter the United States, learn how to fly these types of planes,’ … They may not have known ultimately where this was headed or what the goal was. Then...

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward...

It doesn’t happen to me anymore, because a fresh generation of Africans and Asians has arisen to take over the business, but in my early years in Washington, D.C., I would often find myself in...

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world, … per year, Australians do see more films.

Believe me, the United States is very popular now in Iraqi Kurdistan.

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never...

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning employees, the government is something to be avoided, an overwhelming,...

The United States has gone the extra mile, in fact, the extra 20,000 miles, back and forth across the Atlantic many times.

As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I’ve never questioned the justification for resorting...

And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva...

Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that’s ever performed for the U.S. Olympic Committee. She’s been a leader, she’s been gracious, she’s somebody that cares for so...

The United States is, at the moment, not well prepared to manage an [emergency] evacuation of this sort in the relevant time frame,

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed ‘special relationship’ between our two countries.I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it...

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, … I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use...

It is something the United States cares a great deal about. And the president is worried about the humanitarian conditions.

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is...

Consider the great Samuel Clemens. Huckleberry Finn is one of the few books that all American children are mandated to read: Jonathan Arac, in his brilliant new study of the teaching of Huck, is quite...

If Libya were to do that, then Libya would be complying, and the families and the United States that have sought justice would be getting the justice that has been denied so long.

What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be...

The United States must do something favorable to the smooth development of Sino-U.S. relations, rather than make remarks that confuse right and wrong and are harmful to relations,

I was disappointed because the president of the United States had just confessed to engaging in an extramarital affair with a young woman in his employ and to willfully deceiving the nation about his conduct.

Some of the top aquariums in the United States, none have had two months of over 300,000 attendants. When we see this kind of data we’re getting, we’re not even in peak season yet, it...

This is a major long-term investment. If it’s going to be undermined for unjustified reasons, that will tell Arab investors and governments to keep away from the United States.

I’m saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That’s all I’m saying.

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term ‘conservatism’ can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of...

Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (…) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that...

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed...

To continue to foster consistency between both licensing programs, Microsoft has decided to make available for the desktop protocols the same reference license for source code it is offering for server protocols, and the company...

The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast...

The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war...

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the ‘Super’, i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole....

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of “most successful organization in modern history,” you would struggle to find a more obviously worthy nominee than the federal government of the United States.In its earliest...

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Only two theaters in the entire United States,

I think there is a feeling that the United States really is quite engaged, quite interested in continuing to be engaged, to push the process forward.

[…] I stated to them among other things that no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I...

Can’t wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it’s taking to VOTE.

We alone at the Humane Society of the United States, through our 1-800 number, logged 1,500 calls from people who lived in New Orleans and said they left their pets there,

Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.

I will be going there to talk to my counterparts, both in the United States and in Europe, to talk about best practices and share ideas.

The ‘pre-emption’ versus ‘prevention’ debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that...

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

We are pleased with this decision because it reflects the position we have maintained all along. The United States can no longer claim that its measure is WTO-consistent.

The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to...

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.